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JAMES A. BLANHLEY, or BELLAIRE, oHIo, Assienon rro CHARLES H.

TALLMAN, or SAME PLACE. A

INCASED OIL-CAN.

SPECIFICATION'forming part of Letters Patent No. 300,682, dated June 17, 1884. .A pplicaton filed February 2G, 1884. (No model.)

T0 a/ZZ whom it may concern-.-

Be it known that I, JAMES A. BLANKLEY, of Bellaire, in the county of Belmont and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Incased Oil-Cans; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

In incased glass vessels as now manufactured the upper edge of the jacket is wired in such a way that an upwardly-proj ecting eye or loop isformed in the wire to which the hooked ends of the bail-wire are attached. To wire this top and forni the eye or loop before mentioned is a matter of considerable labor and expense, and requires several manual and ma'- chine operations.

To lessen this labor and expense is the purpose of my invention, which consists, principally, in separate ears'or lugs of a special construction for the bail, inserted from the inside through opposite walls of the jacket, and which are not only held in proper position by the glass vessel, but serve, in part or wholly, to hold the glass vessel in its position in the jacket.

For the better understanding of my invention reference should be had to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figurel is a top View of an incased glass vessel with the lugs or ears in position after the glass vessel is fully inserted; Fig. 2, a vertical central section of the same with the glass vessel partly inserted, with the lugs or ears in the position which they then assume; Fig. 3, the blank for the lugs or ears as cut in the first instance, and Fig. 4 the lug or ear as iinished by a subsequent operation. Fig. 5 is a vertical section on the line x of Fig. 2.

Similar letters denote corresponding parts in each gure.

In the drawings, A represents the glass vessel, and B the incasing-jacket, and a the upper edge of the same. Slits or openings b are made in the walls of the jacket, near the upper edge of the same, through which ears or lugs C are inserted from within after the jacket is completed. These ears or lugs are made from small scraps of sheet metal--such as tin,

for instance-which would otherwiseA be thrown away as worthless. From such pieces of scraps a blank is cutout by a proper die, in form like that shown in Fig. 3, with a body, c, and a neck, c, and an opening, c, for attachment of the bail-wire. By a subsequent operation and by a proper die the blank is nished, as shown in Fig. 4. with the neck bent out at about right anglesl with the body fora short distance, and then bent again nearly at right angles and in a direction opposite to that of the body. Vhen these ears or lugs thus finished have their necks o inserted in the slits b, the size of the body c preventing the passage of the same through the slit, and the weight of the body overbalancing the weight of the neck, the body hangs down in a vertical position, and close to the inner walls of the jacket, while the neck points upwardly. The glass vessel is inserted from below into the jacket, and the operator pressing the same upwardly, the upper shoulders of the vessel pass over the bodies c of these ears, and press and hold the same closely to the inner walls of the jacket, and between such walls and the outer walls of the glass vessel. Thereby said ears are not only held firmly in the proper position with the neck c pointing upward, but by the wedging action of the glass vessel upon these ears or lugs the glass vessel is more firmly held within the jacket. The upper edge of the jacket needs no wiring, as there is little or no strain upon it, and simply rolling over the edge in the usual way will be found sufficient. To these lugs the hooked ends of the bail D are attached in the usual way. The bottom of the jacket may be protected simply by wiring; or there may be a metal bottom; or the glass vessel may be secured in position above the bottom of the jacket in any desirable way-as, for instance,

by securing a horizontal wire or strip of metalv IOO provenient is too obvious to require particular and an incasing-jacket for the same having a mention. s10t,'b, of the ears C, with the body c of the Having thus described my invention, what same upon the inside of the jacket, and be- 15 I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters tween said jacket and the incased vessel, and 5 Patent, isthe neck c extending out through the slot b, l. The lugs or ears C, having a body, c, and substantiallyas and for the purposes described. neck c', in combination with the jacket B, In testimonywhereof Iaiiixmysignature in having a slit, b, the lugs or ears being ar- -presence of two Witnesses.

ranged with the neck outside of the jacket, JAMES A. BLANKLEY. 1o and the body inside of the sanie,substantia11y Witnesses:

as and for the purposes described. C. H. TALLMAN,

2. The combination, with an incased vessel D. W. COOPER.

Correction in Letters Patent No. 300,682.

It is hereby certified that Letters Patent No. 300,682, granted J une 17, 1884, upon the application of James A. Blankley, of Bellaire, Ohio, for an improvement in l Ineased Oil-Gans,77 Was erroneously issued t0 Charles H. Tallman, of same place, as assignee ot' the entire interest in said invention; that said Letters Patent should have been issued t the said James A. BZan-kley and Charles H. Tallmaa, as joint owners; and that the patent should be read with this correction therein to make it conform to the record of the ease in the Patent Ofee.

Signed, eountersigned, and sealed this 24th day` of June, A. D. 1884.

[SEAL] M. L. JOSLYN,

Acting Secretary of the Interior.

' Gountersigned z 

